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Table of Contents:

• An American novelist, Sinclair Lewis
• Sherwood Anderson
• The Spoon River anthology
• Hermann Melville
• Preface to Moby Dick
• Preface to Dark Laughter
• O. Henry, or, The literary trick
• John Dos Passos and the American novel
• Dreiser and his social battle
• Interpretation of Walt Whitman, poet
• Faulkner, a bad pupil of Anderson
• The fictionalized biographies of Sinclair Lewis
• Preface to the Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
• Preface to "Benito Cereno"
• Preface to Three lives
• Additions to the second preface to Moby-Dick
• The dead at Spoon River
• American ripeness
• A useful book
• A Negro speaks to us

• Yesterday and today
• The great American anguish
• Preface to Defoe, Moll Flanders
• Preface to Dickens, David Copperfield
• Preface to Conrad, 'Twixt land and sea
• Robert Louis Stevenson.

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Author/Creator:

Pavese, Cesare

Contributors:

Fussell, Edwin S.

Languages:

English
Italian

Language Notes:

Item content: English
Translated from (original): Italian

Main Work:

Letteratura americana [by Pavese, C.] (English)

Subjects:

American literature — 19th century — History and criticism

American literature — 20th century — History and criticism

1800-1999

American literature

United States

Genres:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

General Notes:

Translation of La letteratura americana.
Includes bibliographical references.

Physical Description:

xxiv, 219 pages ; 23 cm

Call Numbers:

PS221 .P3413

ISBNs:

0520016335
9780520016330

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

70101338

OCLC Numbers:

178648